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OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

MindzEye said:
As long as they stay healthy, he's right.

Just to piggy back on my rankings from the other day, here's their starting 5's and my projected BPM (just the sum of a rough avg of what each player does when healthy) of their starting 5's (24/25 EPM in brackets)

Cavs: Spider, Mobley, Allen, Garland, Hunter
Proj BPM: +15.5 (12.1 EPM)

Magic: Wagner, Paolo, Bane, Suggs, WCJ
Proj BPM: +11 (10.3 EPM)

Knicks: Brunson, KAT, OG, Mikal, Hart
Proj BPM: +10.5 (8.0 EPM)

Bucks: Giannis, Turner, KPJ, GTJ, Anthony
Proj BPM: +9.5 (4.8 EPM)

Pistons: Cade, Duren, Tobias, Robinson, Ausar
Proj BPM: +9 (3.3 EPM)

Heat: Bam, Herro, Norm, Wiggins, Ware
Proj BPM: +6.5 (4.2 EPM)

Raptors: Scottie, Ingram, Jake, IQ, RJ
Proj BPM: +8.5 (5.0 EPM)

Hawks: Trae, Tingus, JJ, NAW, Daniels
Proj BPM: +9 (Heavily dependent on Tingus staying healthy, which won't happen with his condition, +5-6 without Tingus)
(5.4 EPM w Tingers, 3.7 w/o)

So yeah, our starting lineup is definitely in line with teams who are competing for the 4-5-6 spots just based on everyone putting in more or less a typical effort by their standards. The question with the Raptors is can they all play together and can they stay healthy. The collection of talent is definitely competing for a playoff spot though.
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Updated with last year's EPM. Long story short, the east probably isn't as "wide open" as talking heads are making it seem. There's 3 teams clearly better than everyone else, the 4th has Giannis...so yeah, have fun, and then the rest of us pretty good team who might win 45+
 
A few honourable mention teams that I passed over, but it's good to see them for comparison. It's not like the Raptors have earned looking past anyone really.

Pacers: Siakam, Nesmith, Nemhard, McConnell, Huff
Proj BPM: +3 (4.5 EPM)
Kind of expect them to play a lot of small ball with Mathurin instead of Huff, and their bench to get slaughtered badly.

Celtics: Brown, White, Pritchard, Hauser, Queta
Proj BPM: +7 (6.0 EPM)
Massive house of cards here with Boston probably more interested in playing Simons to get value for him (Pritchard is an analytics darling rotation guard), and Brown to spend his sweet ass time rehabbing from that surgery. Their bench is an epic wasteland with guys like Luke Garza set to get real minutes for them. Slow roll Brown's rehab, or an injury to White and this falls off the planet quickly.
 
MindzEye said:
A few honourable mention teams that I passed over, but it's good to see them for comparison. It's not like the Raptors have earned looking past anyone really.

Pacers: Siakam, Nesmith, Nemhard, McConnell, Huff
Proj BPM: +3 (4.5 EPM)
Kind of expect them to play a lot of small ball with Mathurin instead of Huff, and their bench to get slaughtered badly.

Celtics: Brown, White, Pritchard, Hauser, Queta
Proj BPM: +7 (6.0 EPM)
Massive house of cards here with Boston probably more interested in playing Simons to get value for him (Pritchard is an analytics darling rotation guard), and Brown to spend his sweet ass time rehabbing from that surgery. Their bench is an epic wasteland with guys like Luke Garza set to get real minutes for them. Slow roll Brown's rehab, or an injury to White and this falls off the planet quickly.
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Stevens is going to tank this year and reload via draft and trades
 
Moar hot takes

- CMB isn't ready for NBA minutes.
- Castleton is a bum
- Mogbo and Shead are limited but good at what they are. I don't know how good off the bench they're going to be, but they're not going to embarrass themselves in a full time NBA role.
- If Gradey doesn't show improvement, Ja'Kobe is going to push him out of the SG situation by December.
 
MindzEye said:
Moar hot takes

- CMB isn't ready for NBA minutes.
- Castleton is a bum
- Mogbo and Shead are limited but good at what they are. I don't know how good off the bench they're going to be, but they're not going to embarrass themselves in a full time NBA role.
- If Gradey doesn't show improvement, Ja'Kobe is going to push him out of the SG situation by December.
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Dick should start packing his bags and his Gillette razor
 
MindzEye said:
Moar hot takes

- CMB isn't ready for NBA minutes.
- Castleton is a bum
- Mogbo and Shead are limited but good at what they are. I don't know how good off the bench they're going to be, but they're not going to embarrass themselves in a full time NBA role.
- If Gradey doesn't show improvement, Ja'Kobe is going to push him out of the SG situation by December.
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Castleton and Castle Man are the same guy i assume
 
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